Olbermann did. He read more into it, considered it and didn’t like it much. So Wednesday night, he lumped Edsall into a category he had until then seen fit only for the Bryce Harpers and Jeff Wilpons of the world: “World’s Worst Person in Sports.” You read that right.

“Our winner is a good old American college football coach: Randy Edsall of Maryland. Maryland linebacker Marcus Whitfield opened the season with five tackles and one-and-a-half sacks in the Terps’ 43-10 win over Florida International, and they gave him the defensive game ball. Well, they said they gave him the game ball.

"After all the yelling in the locker room, Whitfield went to actually get the game ball to take it home or, I don’t know, paint it. That’s when he found out, quote, ‘We can’t get the game ball until after we leave school because it’s against NCAA regulations. We have the game ball, but it’s in the archives.’ Whitfield says he can wait; it’s not a problem. He doesn’t want to get anybody in trouble.

"So every winning team in every college football game is violating NCAA rules -- the extra-benefit rules -- each time it awards a game ball? There are 300 rules violations every Saturday? Maryland says it is abiding by the NCAA rule that places a monetary limit on gifts that athletes can receive. It’s 225 bucks a year for underclassmen, 425 for seniors. The ball would count against it.